Idelle Weber
Falling Figures, 1966
Tempera on color-aid paper
59 x 48 cm
23 1/4 x 18 7/8 in
23 1/4 x 18 7/8 in
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Idelle Weber’s works from the 1960s offer a prescient examination of visibility and the dynamics of looking within an emerging consumer society. Her silhouetted figures capture both the energy and...
Idelle Weber’s works from the 1960s offer a prescient examination of visibility and the dynamics of looking within an emerging consumer society. Her silhouetted figures capture both the energy and alienation of post-war urban life. In works such as Flower Girl (1960) and Falling Figures (1966), bodies are reduced to graphic forms – stylish and sexual, but also exposed and hovering between motion and collapse. Falling Figures (1966) shows bodies tumbling down the composition over a flesh-pink flat paper ground. Are they athletes performing, or bodies subject to the volatile forces of the era, falling under its weight?
Exhibitions
Taste and Decency, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (2026)Figura, Foxy Productions, New York, New York, USA (2020)
Idelle Weber: Postures and Profiles from the 50s and 60s, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2018)
Idelle Weber: Sunny - Works from New York's Pop Era, Broadway 1602, New York, New York, USA (2017)
Idelle Weber: The Pop Years, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2013)
Literature
Angst Vorm Flegen, Erica Jong, Ecco/Harper Collins, 2024 (cover art)Idelle Weber, Who Stretched the Meaning of Pop Art, Dies at 88 - New York Times - April 7, 2020
Idelle Weber: Postures and Profiles from the 50s and 60s, Hollis Taggart Gallery, 2018
Idelle Weber: The Pop Years, Hollis Taggart Gallery, 2013
